hutmentn.
/ˈhʌtm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈhətmənt/ Originally and chiefly Military.
An encampment consisting of or featuring huts; accommodation in huts. Also: a hut used as accommodation.
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a1857 H. W. Lugard Narr. Operations Arrangem. Camp 10,000 Infantry (1858) 19 The early plans of the officers' and soldiers' huts are defective... Those more recently constructed, both at the Curragh and at the English camps (particularly at the small hutment at Chatham), are greatly improved in that respect.
1889 Lancet 30 Mar. 650/1 £14,230 for hutment for increased garrison at Malta.
1898 Daily News 25 Aug. 5/2 A sea of white tents, brown blanket shelters, and nondescript grass hutments.
1945 D. Bolster Roll on my Twelve 116 He concealed himself behind an ugly, shabby little hutment.
2005 Independent on Sunday 9 Jan. (Review Suppl.) 22/1 In these hutments, they were in bunks three high.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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